Title

The Stories We’ll Tell Tomorrow: University of Maine Humanities Scholars and the Covid-19 Pandemic Video

Document Type

Video

Publication/Creation Date

6-17-2021

Description

Video of the virtual event, "The Stories We'll Tell Tomorrow: University of Maine Humanities Scholars and the COVID-19 Pandemic" held on June 17, 2021 at 3:30 pm.

The event featured presentations of recent research projects and creative endeavors undertaken by University of Maine scholars, moderated by Michael Socolow, the director of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center. The featured projects all speak to the essential relevance of the humanities and humanistic inquiry, and have received press and media attention noting their public service.

Event details:

Welcome and Introduce President by Mike Socolow

Open and Introduce Governor Mills poetry reading from President Ferrini-Mundy Governor Mills (recording)

Brief event overview by Mike Socolow

Kreg T. Ettenger on the Jack Pine Project

Kathryn Swacha on Coping with Covid Project

Mike introduces MHC Advisory Board Co-Chair, and Patron’s circle Member Kathryn Olmstead (2 minutes)

Kathryn Olmstead on supporting the Humanities at UMaine

Mike Socolow introduces “Maine Remembers the Coronavirus” as a donor-supported project Q&A

Event Speakers:

Kreg T. Ettenger, Associate Professor of Anthropology, and Director of the Maine Folklife Center and Maine Studies Program presents the Maine Folklife Center’s “Jack Pine Project,” a community art project that responded to the covid-19 crisis by “connecting artists, art educators, and art therapists with residents from around Maine. Through a series of individual workshops, Maine artists, musicians, writers, and others worked with different groups to help them express their thoughts, feelings, concerns, and hopes for the future.”

Kathryn Swacha, Assistant Professor of English presents “Coping with Covid: A Public Story Telling Project,” which “aims to provide a space for people to share how they are ‘coping with COVID’ throughout their everyday routines and to improve our understanding of how we are all interpreting social distancing and other public health guidelines on a daily basis,” and the Maine Folklife Center’s “Jack Pine Project,” a community arts project that responded to the covid-19 crisis by “connecting artists, art educators, and art therapists with residents from around Maine.

Michael J. Socolow, Associate Professor of Communication and Journalism and Director of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center presents the Center’s “Maine Remembers the Coronavirus” project, which will collect oral history interviews about the pandemic’s impact in different sectors of Maine’s society and economy.

The event was co-sponsored by the University of Maine Office of the Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School and the McGillicuddy Humanities Center.

Also, included as supplemental content is an emails regarding the event.

Item Identifier

COVID-19_Teaching, Learning & Research_2021_07_16a

File Type

Video

File Format

MP4

Comments

The content was captured from the webpages of the University of Maine by Matthew Revitt, University Archivist on July 16, 2021.

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